World's oldest message in a bottle washes up in Germany after 108 years at sea

The bottle was released into the sea by George Parker Bidder in the early 1900s

The oldest message in a bottle in the world, found by the Winkler family (left) and George Parker Bidder who released the bottle into the North Sea between 1904 and 1906 as part of his research Photo: MBA Archive

By Justin Huggler, Berlin

6:31PM BST 20 Aug 2015

A message in a bottle thrown into the sea 108 years ago by British scientists has been discovered washed up on a beach in Germany.